Grandpa's Tractor

Posted by Tanklord on February 12, 2007 at 13:40:16 from (74.234.108.236):

After reading Happy One's tale of finding his grandpa's 3 tractors, I feel I have to relate the story of my grandpa's tractor. He bought a Ford 641 brand new in 1958, the year I was born. In 1963 he converted it to LP. I put many an hour on it from the time I was 7 until it "disappeared". Over the years he and I always talked about how the tractors, he also had a 1967 5000, would be mine. Nothing was ever put on paper. I was the oldest grandson, and no one else in the family ever showed interest in the tractors, or for that matter, the farm. He retired from dairy farming in 1976 and started raising beef cattle, more as something to keep him busy, sort of a hobby. I went on to work in the oilfield. In June of 1995, he suffered a stroke while I was offshore. When I came in, I went to see him in the hospital, then went to the farm to see how things were. Now mind you, this was 10 days after he was admitted to the hospital. I couldn't believe what I saw, or more correctly what I didn't see... much of the equipment was missing! The 641, a 5' rotary mower, a 2-bottom Dearborn plow, a 3 pt. scoop, a blade box, a harrow, and a set of 3-pt disks were all missing. I went through the roof. At first no one knew where they went. It took me threatening a criminal investigation before one of my uncles came forward and said he sold the equipment to pay medical bills. All the above equipment was sold for $1100 because the buyer said it was all junk!. I said first off it wasn't his to sell, and second, if they needed money that bad, I would have gladly given $3000 to help with the bills. My next question was, okay, now where's the money...grandma didn't have it. Two days later $1100 in cash showed up on Grandma's table. Next thing I did was try to find the equipment and buy it back. Seemed my uncles suffered from short turn memory loss. No one remembered who bought the stuff. Here it is 11 years later, and I am still trying to find that tractor. In my heart I know my grandpa wants me to get it back.

Sorry for the long story, needed to get it off my chest.

Replies:

• Re: Grandpa's Tractor DitchWI 12:06:47 02/13/07 (0)
• Re: Grandpa's Tractor Larry Larson 15:10:06 02/12/07 (0)
• Re: Grandpa's Tractor mike a. tenn. 14:30:24 02/12/07 (0)
• Re: Grandpa's Tractor monomechanical 13:47:31 02/12/07 (2)
  • Re: Grandpa's Tractor Tanklord 14:11:47 02/12/07 (1)
    • Re: Grandpa's Tractor monomechanical 14:59:05 02/12/07 (0)

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